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So, Knuth wrote it in 10 pages from the ground up? But, the other guy just used unix commands. I wonder how many lines of code all those utilities add up to.

• p9idf 15y ago
  I checked the Plan 9 tools, which are similar to the Unix ones. Though without access to Knuth's program, I can't draw a sensible conclusion from the following data. term% wc /sys/src/cmd/^(tr.c sort.c uniq.c sed.c) 356 998 5993 /sys/src/cmd/tr.c 1752 4526 28371 /sys/src/cmd/sort.c 165 346 2185 /sys/src/cmd/uniq.c 1455 4267 26848 /sys/src/cmd/sed.c 3728 10137 63397 total term% wc <{man tr} <{man sort} <{man uniq} <{man sed} 54 269 2028 /fd/8 137 741 5542 /fd/7 41 149 1225 /fd/6 208 1078 8464 /fd/5 440 2237 17259 total